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Lovely One: A Memoir

Ketanji Brown Jackson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji BrownJackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's...
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Alexis Pauline Gumbs - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even...
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Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm

DeMar DeRozan - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbreaking and remarkable memoir chronicling a very public struggle with depression, in the hopes that other people will not suffer alone.. "DeMar DeRozan's story is one of adaptability, courage, and love. The persistent...
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Bruce Willis: Celebrating the Cinematic Legacy of an Unbreakable Hollywood Icon

Sean O'Connell - Applause
Format: Hardcover

On a nondescript Wednesday morning in the waning days of March 2023, one of the biggest movie stars on the planet called it quits. No press conference had been organized, the Hollywood trades received no advance notice, and there was a conspicuous lack of the fanfare that usually accompanies...
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Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

Theodore H. Schwartz - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

"If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz's...
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White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us

Joe Moore - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods of the Sunshine State, uncovering details about the hate group's structure and its modern far-right spinoffs which are operating to achieve the same...
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories."-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards. "Amanda Jones...
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Atlas of True Crime: A Worldwide Guide to Murderers and Thieves, Kidnappers and Con Men

Nancy J. Hajeski - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone." --Georges Bataille, French philosopher Interest in criminal behavior continues to flourish. The worse the crime and the greater the notoriety of the perpetrator, the more the public yearns to digest every detail....
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Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

Richard J Evans - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy. "Evans . . . offers these eye-opening portraits of the heart of evil in an effort to understand what kind of people fell under Hitler's spell. . . . A meticulously researched, sobering look at the Nazi era and the people...
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker: Based on years of scrupulous research, Amy Reading creates a rare and deeply intimate ... editor and her famous marriage to E.B. White.

Amy Reading - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine's prestigious legacy and transform the 20th century literary landscape for women.In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker's...
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